The CBCA Book of the Year Awards shortlists 2017

27 Mar 2017

The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced their Book of the Year Awards shortlists for 2017. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, editors and publishers!

Here are the shortlists for each category.

Older Readers

Waer by Meg Caddy
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
Yellow by Megan Jacobson
Frankie by Shivaun Plozza
One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn

Younger Readers

Rockhopping by Trace Balla
Within These Walls by Robyn Bavati
A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee
Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr
Mrs Whitlam by Bruce Pascoe
Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade by Kate and Jol Temple (illustrated by John Foye)

Early Childhood

Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by Johanna Bell (illustrated by Dion Beasley)
All I Want for Christmas is Rain by Cori Brooke (illustrated by Megan Forward)
The Snow Wombat by Susannah Chambers (illustrated by Mark Jackson)
Nannie Loves by Kylie Dunstan
Chip by Kylie Howarth
Gary by Leila Rudge

Picture Book of the Year

One Photo by Ross Watkins (illustrated by Liz Anelli)
Mechanica by Lance Balchin
Home in the Rain by Bob Graham
My Brother by Dee, Oliver and Tiffany Huxley
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke (illustrated by Van T Rudd)
Out by Angela May George (illustrated by Owen Swan)

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Spellbound: Making Pictures with the A-B-C by Maree Coote
A – Z of Endangered Animals by Jennifer Cossins
The Gigantic Book of Genes by Lorna Hendry
Fabish, The Horse that Braved a Bushfire by Neridah McMullin (illustrated by Andrew McLean)
Amazing Animals of Australia’s National Parks by Gina M Newton
William Bligh: a stormy story of tempestuous times by Michael Sedunary (illustrated by Bern Emmerichs)

Crichton Award for New Illustrators

A Patch from Scratch by Megan Forward
Mechanica by Lance Balchin
‘Melbourne’ Word by Word by Michael McMahon
Small Things by Mel Tregonning
The Patchwork Bike by Van T Rudd (illustrator) and Maxine Beneba Clarke (text)
Welcome to Country by Lisa Kennedy (illustrator) and Auntie Joy Murphy (text)

The winners for each category will be announced on 18 August. Find out more about the CBCA Awards here.

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One Would Think the Deep

Claire Zorn

CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Older Readers) 2017

Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing…

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Frankie

Shivaun Plozza

Originally published in Australia by Penguin Australia Pty Ltd. –Copyright page.

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Yellow

Megan Jacobson

If fourteen-year-old Kirra is having a mid-life crisis now then it doesn’t bode well for her life expectancy. Her so-called friends bully her, whatever semblance of a mother she had…

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The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon

Subhi’s imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he’s spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The…

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Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley

This is a love story. It’s the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. It’s the story of how we leave our histories in the things we love - like…

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Waer

Meg Caddy

When Lowell Sencha finds the strange girl lying as if dead on the riverbank, he is startled to find that she is like them: waer. Human, but able to assume…

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Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade

Kate Temple,Jol Temple

Jimmy Cook is finding History Week a bit boring until Ms Fennel starts banging on about Captain Cook. Then - bingo! Turns out he and Captain Cook have a lot…

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Dragonfly Song

Wendy Orr

There are two ways of looking at Aissa’s story. She’s the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she’s the cursed child who called the Bull King’s ship to the…

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Rockhopping

Trace Balla

Join Clancy and Uncle Egg on a rambling, rockhopping adventure in Gariwerd (the Grampians), to find the source of the Glenelg River. A story about following your flow, and the…

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The Snow Wombat

Susannah Chambers

It’s a big journey through the snow for a little wombat, meeting animals, birds, and people along the way… but there’s no place like home! A heartwarming story set in…

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Go Home, Cheeky Animals!

Johanna Bell

At Canteen Creek where we live, there are cheeky dogs everywhere. But when the cheeky goats, donkeys, buffaloes, and camels make mischief in the camp, the dogs just lie there…

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William Bligh: A Stormy Story of Tempestuous Times

Michael Sedunary

To survive one mutiny might be considered fortunate, but to survive two is extraordinary. Here is the true story of William Bligh, the man at the centre of the mutiny…

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A-Z of Endangered Animals

Jennifer Cossins

On this journey through the alphabet, you will encounter some of the world’s most beautiful, rare and endangered animals from the majestic Amur Tiger of the Siberian plains to the…

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Spellbound: Making Pictures with the ABC

Maree Coote

There are shapes all around us, shapes that look like the letters of the alphabet. This book reveals this typographic illustration, known as letter art.

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The Gigantic Book of Genes

Lorna Hendry

Genes are the blueprint for life. They are found inside the cells of all living organisms, and are responsible for how a plant or animal looks and grows. Welcome to…

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Welcome To Country

Aunty Joy Murphy,Lisa Kennedy

This is an expansive and generous Welcome to Country from a most respected Elder, Aunty Joy Murphy, beautifully given form by Indigenous artist Lisa Kennedy.

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Small Things

Mel Tregonning

An ordinary boy in an ordinary world…With no words, only illustrations, Small Things tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help…

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Melbourne Word By Word

Michael McMahon

Word by word, sound by sound, sight by familiar sight, this is a book that evokes the spirit of Melbourne. Take a meander through Melbourne’s iconic landmarks and hidden gems…

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Readings

The CBCA Book of the Year Awards shortlists 2017

Older Readers

Younger Readers

Early Childhood

Picture Book of the Year

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Crichton Award for New Illustrators

The winners for each category will be announced on 18 August. Find out more about the CBCA Awards here.